Creating a draft movie

To see the motion of the ballet letters, you'll create a draft movie of just the letter layers. A draft movie is especially useful if you don't have enough RAM to preview the whole composition using RAM Preview.

Deselect the Hide Shy Layers button (
), and then deselect the Video switches (
) to hide the video for all layers except those containing the letters in the word ballet. For more information, see
"Video, Audio, and Lock switches"
.

Set the end of the work area to 10:10.

Figure .

Choose Composition > Make Movie, type Draft1.mov for the name, and save the file in your Projects folder.

For Render Settings, choose Draft Settings.

Instead of using the MoviePlayer application to view this movie, you will import it directly into your project, and then view the movie from within After Effects.